NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 and 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (128GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.000GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Apr 2000
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
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250 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
5.312GB/s
Render Config
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8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
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Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
800.0 MPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
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Board Design
25W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
NV15
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
GeForce2 GTS
Curie
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
180 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.025 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
88 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
7.0
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
1.5
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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3.0
Shader Model
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